Working knowledge
Subtitle: making the human sciences from Parsons to Kuhn
By: Joel Isaac
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780674065741
Subjects: Reseach; Study and teaching; Harvard University; Social sciences; Universities and colleges; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: crafting knowledge in the human sciences; title: The interstitial academy : Harvard and the rise of the American university; title: Making a case : the Harvard Pareto circle; title: What do the science-makers do? : migrations of operationism; title: Radical translation : W. V. Quine and the reception of logical empiricism; title: The levellers : Harvard's social scientists from World War to Cold War; title: Lessons of the revolution : history, sociology, and philosophy of science; title: Epilogue: the great disembedding; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.